Month: July 2019

The House of Representatives ad hoc committee on Media and Publicity, on Friday, said that the Speaker of the House, Femi Gbajabiamila has fulfilled his promise to opposition parties in terms of committee positions. A member of the Committee, Yusuf Gaji, who briefed reporters also said there is no rancour between the Director-General of the…

The House of Representatives has given reasons for not taking over Edo State Assembly and when the Green Chamber is likely to do so. Speaking with reporters on Fruday, the ad hoc committee on Media and Publicity, represented by Hon. Yusuf Gaji said there is the need to harmonise the reports by the two Chambers…

IMMEDIATE past Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha has said the claim by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) that he spurned series of invitations by the commission is misleading and an attempt to justify the hatchet job it is allegedly assigned to do. The anti-graft agency, in a statement by its Head of Media…

The Presidency on Thursday said that the latest Boko Haram video has created urgency for the security agencies, especially the secret services in the efforts to ensuring the release of those on the captivity of the terrorist groups. It also expressed worry over the recent video released by the terrorist group showing some abducted Nigerians.…

Ondo State House of Assembly was in confusion on Thursday following the sudden appearance of a snake in the Assembly floor. Sources said the reptile fell off the roof of the hollow chamber while the lawmakers were about to start legislative business. The lawmakers, it was learnt quickly abandoned their desks and microphones and fled…

Enyinnaya Abaribe on Wednesday commended Adeleke Mamora for rejecting President Muhammadu Buhari’s offer during the ministerial screening in Abuja. Buhari had in 2018 appointed Mamora as the chairman of the Abuja Investment and Infrastructure Centre, but he turned it down. Abaribe said: Mamora “was offered a position and he looked at this senate and he…

Says the take-home of the least of them will be more than the salary of a newly employed level 9 officer in a state civil service In Statement on Wednesday night by his Media Aide, Akinrinlola Olumide, Senator Nicholas Tofowomo of Ondo South, has appointed 46 Peoples from across six Local Governments of his Senatorial…

Two Nigerian-born authors Oyinkan Braithwaite (My Sister, the Serial Killer) and Chigozie Obioma (An Orchestra of Minorities) are on the long-list of authors contesting for 2019 Booker prize of £50,000. Braithwaite, 31, who is a debutant and youngest of the writers is listed for this year’s women’s prize. Her comic thriller opens as Korede is…

Sen. Godswill Akpabio, one of the ministerial nominees says he will do his best in any portfolio assigned to him by President Muhammadu Buhari. Akpabio, the nominee from Akwa Ibom, disclosed this in an interview with newsmen after his nomination was the Senate on Wednesday. The minister-designate expressed his readiness to work with the president…

The traditional ruler of Kona people, Augustine Njanmeng, has decried the alleged occupation of 17 villages belonging to his community by suspected herdsmen in Jalingo Local Government Area of Taraba State. Njanmeng told newsmen in his palace in Jalingo on Wednesday that the herdsmen were grazing on the farms of displaced people. He also alleged…